As it’s Friday and you should all be tired from a week of grueling study, I’m going to start with a game. I’ve named it “Guess the Country” and it shouldn’t be too taxing for your weary brains. Basically, I’ll give you a description from the Amnesty International 2004 report documenting human rights abuses around […]
Author Archives: Matthew Kennard
Civil rights orators must inform, inspire
It’s a little-known fact that the current vice president of the United States, Dick “freedom and democracy” Cheney, was an active supporter of the prolonged incarceration of Nelson Mandela. The great South African freedom fighter ““ often compared to Martin Luther King Jr. himself ““ spent 27 years behind bars for opposing the sickening racism […]
Education shouldn’t be for sale
Sometimes those little jokey page-filler articles deep within a newspaper tell us more about the world we live in than the front pages. This was plainly the case last week when the more avid newspaper reader might have come across a story about a 20-year-old American man who is auctioning ““ yes, auctioning ““ his […]
Government leaders should redraft funds, revise morals
As the pictures flashed across my television screen on Boxing Day, I was awestruck. My auntie had phoned to tell me there had been some sort of terrorist attack in East Asia. I switched on BBC News 24 to be greeted with the bold, rolling caption ““ “Major Earthquake in Indian Ocean, 3,000 dead.” It […]